A Quick and Simple Dictionary

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1. Initialism.  (emergency medicine) Initialism of ''signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past pertinent history, last oral intake, events leading to present illness''.
2. Noun.  A part of anything taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
3. Noun.  (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
4. Noun.  (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording, used to emphasize a particular point by implying a certain context.
5. Noun.  (obsolete) Example; pattern.
6. Verb.  (transitive) To make or show something similar to; to match.
7. Verb.  (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wool, cloth.
8. Verb.  (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new song.